Toy.



No. 684,998. Patented Oct. 22, l90l;

' J. MAURO.

TOY.

(Application filed Mar. 21, 1901.)

(No Model.)

Jim enforam I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JOHN MAURO, OF I-IALEDON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF SEVEN-TtVELFTI-IS TO WILLIAM BUSCI-IMANN, OF HALEDON, NEW JERSEY, AND GEORGE HARRIS, OF PATERSON, NEIV JERSEY.

TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,998, dated October 22,1901. Application filed March 21 1901. Serial No. 52,267. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN MAURO, a subject of Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy, residing at IIaledon, Manchester township, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a device the manipulation of which in the manner hereinafter described will produce sounds resembling the whistling and humming of birds, the fluttering of wings, the rattling of a rattlesnake, a wind or thunder storm, and other sounds-a device that may be used for the amusement and entertainment of the urchin or which may be utilized upon the stage or in the orchestra as a theatrical adjunct to the music and scenery of plays.

The invention consists of a long narrow plate of one piece or of two or more layers suitably secured together and provided with one or more openings through said layer or 2 5 layers of suitable size and shape, sound-producing devices suitably secured in said openings, and a knotted cord, one end of which is secured to said plate and having on its other extremity a ring adapted to be placed on the 0 finger of the person using the invention as a toy. When it is desired to use the invention as a mechanical adjunct in theatrical atfairs, the knotted cord instead of being connected with the finger-ring may be attached to any machine or device adapted to swing the plate on the other end of the cord, so that it will describe a circle in the air. (See Figure 2.) In both instances besides describing a circle the plate twirls in either direction on 40 the end of the cord, as if on a swivel, owing partly to the knotted cord describing circles, as shown in Fig. 3.

In the drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Fig. 1 represents my device provided with four whistles in circular openings and a fluttering card in a longitudinal opening. .Fig. 2 is a view showing by dotted line the large circle described by the device when in operation; and Fig. 3 is an end view of the device, showing by dots the small circles described by the device when inoperation in its swivel-like motion on the end of the knotted cord.

In the drawings, P is the long narrow plate, which is provided at each end with the notches N, a longitudinal slot 0, and circular openings or receptacles W, in which are secured the whistles IV.

F is the fluttering card which passes through the longitudinal opening 0, extending over and beyond the edge of the plate P on one side and under and beyond the edge of the plate P on the other side and provided with the notches F.

Eis an elastic cord, preferably an ordinary elastic band, which is passed over the ends of the plate P in the notches N and which is crossed at E, the upper part of the band passing under the fluttering card F and the under part passing above the fluttering card F, thus securing it in the longitudinal open ing 0 of the plate P. p

S is the cord, provided throughout its length with knots K, one end being secured to the plate P and the other end to a fingerring R.

To operate my device, the ring R is placed upon either the index or middle finger of the hand, and by swinging the plate until it describes the dotted circles shown in Figs. 2 and 3 the sounds above mentioned are produced according to the rapidity of the swing ing of the plate.

I claim- A long narrow plate consisting of two layers of material suitably secured together provided with a notch at each end thereof, one or more openings therethrough of suitable size and shape, sound-producingdevices secured in said openings, said plate being pro- 0 vided also with a longitudinal central opening, in combination with a fluttering card which passes through the longitudinal opening extending over and beyond the edge of the plate on one side, and under and beyond the edge of the plate on the other side, said card being provided with notches in the upsaid plate, and the other end to a finger-ring, per and lower edges thereof, an elastic band substantially as set forth. :0 which passes around said plate in the notches In testimony whereof I affix my signature at each end thereof, and is crossed forming a in presence of two witnesses.

loop to embrace and hold said fluttering card JOHN MAURO. in position in said longitudinal opening, a \Vitnesses:

cord provided throughout its length with STELLA A. HUGHES,

knots, one end being secured to the top of JOHN F. KERR. 

